Latest Changes in GATE 2013

by
Manisha Verma

Graduate
Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
is a comprehensive skill test of candidates who are from
engineering background and is conducted in joint collaboration with
Indian Institute of Science with all seven Indian Institute of
Technology. This is one of the most competitive exams for selecting
candidates for engineering post graduate courses in all leading
engineering colleges in the country conducted on behalf of National
Coordination Board for admission to engineering post
graduation.

Application Process:

In GATE 2013,
candidates need to register and fill the application Online only by
accessing the respective zonal GATE
website of IISc and seven IITs. The application process will be
considered as complete only when a print out of the filled Online
application is received by the respective GATE office along with all important and necessary
documents, on or before 24th October, 2011. Sale of application
forms through banks and GATE office
counters has been discontinued.

Downloadable Admit Card: Now
the candidates will not receive Admit card by post, from this year
the GATE authorities has discontinue this
service. Candidates can download the admit card from the zonal
GATE website from 5th Dec,
2012.

Use of black ink ball point
pen: The use of pencil to darken the available options in
the answer sheets has been scraped from this year. Now all the
candidates are suppose to use only black ink ball pen for darkening
the answer options in the GATE 2013
answer sheet.

ONLINE
examination in two additional papers: In GATE 2011, the papers with codes GG, TF, AE and MN
had ONLINE examination. In GATE 2012, two additional papers, AR and AG, will
also have ONLINE examination. The
ONLINE examination will be conducted in
two sessions on Sunday, January 20, 2012.

Numerical answer type questions in
ONLINE papers: In the
ONLINE papers (AE, AG, AR, GG, MN and
TF), the question paper will consist of questions of multiple
choice type and questions of numerical answer type. For multiple
choice type questions, each question will have four choices for the
answer. For numerical answer type questions, each question will
have a number as the answer. The number of numerical answer type
questions may vary between 5 and 10 in each question
paper.

Pre-final year students:
Pre-final year students are not eligible to write GATE 2013.

Hi ,
Currently i am working in Network core based company.
But i have done my B.E in Information science.
Now i am planning to give exam for Government job in network core
based company itseems.
And also i have done CCNA .
Which paper should i select now in gate?
Should i select computers or esle ?
Please help me in this.

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Last Updated At
May 24, 2013